Example sentences of "for [pron] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can hope for nothing more than speculation when the events we are talking about took place four billion years ago and took place , moreover , in a world that must have been radically different from that which we know today . |
| 2 | People will nevertheless say that the desire is for nothing more than alcohol . |
| 3 | Gurirab had insisted before the talks that Namibia would settle for nothing less than South Africa 's agreement in principle to cede the territories . |
| 4 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 5 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 6 | For someone deaf since childhood , poetry was a kind of hearing , fellow poets a life line . |
| 7 | Every type of fiction depends for its defining and acceptance on certain conventions which are , in effect , agreements between author and reader . |
| 8 | Paper Tiger is spending some £10,000 on a promotion for its graphic and fantasy art list in April . |
| 9 | Then he looked up and said , ‘ Celia , you do n't want to remain at Brentwoods for ever , do you , to have our child turn to some third party for its emotional and creature comforts , to get the odd pat on the head from a parent at six o'clock of an evening ? |
| 10 | Lawson Software Inc , Minneapolis , which despite dipping its toe into the Unix market has hitherto concentrated on the AS/400 as the platform for its financial and distribution software , is to launch its new ‘ Open Enterprise ’ range of software during the first week of February . |
| 11 | Shares in Grampian , which recently failed in its bid for chemist group Macarthy , fell 9 to 163p yesterday after it announced a 15 p.c. drop in pre-tax profit to £11.2m in a tough year for its retail and sports goods activities . |
| 12 | Aromatic oils have been used for centuries for their therapeutic and beauty benefits . |
| 13 | Stoddard have also introduced a policy of using recycled paper whenever possible for their administrative and stationery requirements . |
| 14 | Compaore on Jan. 9 ordered the rehabilitation of over 4,000 people who had been punished for their political or trades union activities since 1983 , when Capt. Thomas Sankara took power . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the Angolan people are well known for their friendliness to foreigners and for their placid and kind nature . |
| 16 | In the later Republic and early Empire Greek artists were brought to Rome to design buildings appropriate for the display of booty , to repair old sculptures and make new ones for these and other structures , and to restore decaying old temples , once venerated for their wooden and terracotta statues , but now seen to be in need of renovation . |
| 17 | As before , the problems of interpreting outcomes outweigh the difficulties of assessment and some of the criteria used in research have been criticized for their cultural and class bias . |
| 18 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 19 | It will not do to adopt a so-called negative utilitarianism , once advocated by Karl Popper , for which all that matters is the prevention of pain . |
| 20 | The size of particle for which 25 or 32% of the grains are coarser , P 25 or P 32 respectively in metric units , or φ 25 and φ 32 in the phi system may be read directly from the cumulative frequency curve . |
| 21 | there 's one for you same as Nicky I 've got , here are , there 's another one , different one to that , there 's Nicola 's , leave 'em there I have n't got a Diana , the Queen Mother and the Queen left talking about my girl , my girl |
| 22 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 23 | it ai n't very often I go in for something other than chips and not have chips as well you know |
| 24 | What is time when you 're in a company hatchback surrounded by sweating execs in their hatchbacks , furiously scanning the radio for something other than Libby Purves ? |
| 25 | For one thing he certainly over-states it when he says that pleasure always comes from satisfaction of an antecedent desire for something other than pleasure . |
| 26 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 27 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 28 | It was important to find out whether Riddle 's body could have been in the Wheel and , if it could , was it possible for anyone other than Jordan to have put it there ? |
| 29 | It would not be sensible for anyone other than staff with specific responsibilities in this area to get weighed down in mechanical details such as costing the specific details of any aspect of the school 's plans . |
| 30 | ‘ Would he have gone out on a limb for anyone other than David ? |